Category: Women’s Corner

You have no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring you. Nothing seemed right.  What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean.  Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient.  It’s no good giving my heart and my soul because you […]

Every now and then a familiar story comes to a new meaning.  The other day, I came across the story of Bartimaeus in the Gospel of Mark 10:46-52 that pushed me into a place in my life that was not comfortable.  I’ve read that story many times.  Why so poignant now?   One of the part […]

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In the mythic story of the Lion and the King, the lion cub Simba is separated in his youth from his father in his youth through a murder engineered by his uncle, Scar, the character symbolizing the evil one in our story. Scar arranges for the cub to be caught in a stampede of wildebeests, […]

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards– Soren KierkegaardYou must have heard this one: “Let go. It’s in the past.” Sounds wise and encouraging but the truth is: Our past forms our way of thought life.Complex trauma is like a constellation of stars in the night sky. It’s never just […]

Those things that hurt instruct. – Benjamin Franklin In a family system, there is always one who is appointed to be the scapegoat. The Scapegoat comes from an ancient practice where the goat is sent into the wilderness after the chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it. (Leviticus 16:10)A parent […]